Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP

2004-08-06 Thread Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia]
Without having to sound patronisingthats bollox. Diregard Perl..its dated and pointless. CF will always use and have to use an ODBC/JDBC combo from anyone who can serve it up...jeez your missing the point of ADO and .NET as a whole. Learning ASP is certainly not good for your career, its ut

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP

2004-08-05 Thread Glenn Saunders
At 01:43 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >So does CF, but it's still not ADO.NET. Until Blue Dragon for .Net is officially released, something everyone should be looking into, I think. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP

2004-08-05 Thread Nathan Strutz
Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia] wrote: >>>So does CF, but it's still not ADO.NET. > > Back this up with your reasoningalso if you wouldn't run Windows how are you going to run .NET? curious... > oop, missed the 2nd question. I never said I wasn't running windows. I said my company

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP

2004-08-05 Thread Nathan Strutz
Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia] wrote: >>> PHP also works with SQL Server, even with stored procedures etc. >>So does CF, but it's still not ADO.NET. > Back this up with your reasoningalso if you wouldn't run Windows how are you going to run .NET? curious... My reasoning is this:

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP

2004-08-05 Thread Adrian J. Moreno
Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia] wrote: >>>So does CF, but it's still not ADO.NET. > > > Back this up with your reasoningalso if you wouldn't run Windows how are you going to run .NET? curious... http://mono-project.com/about/index.html :D -- Adrian [Todays Threads] [This Messa

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP

2004-08-05 Thread Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia]
>> So does CF, but it's still not ADO.NET. Back this up with your reasoningalso if you wouldn't run Windows how are you going to run .NET? curious... Nathan Strutz wrote: >Comments inline... > >Viktors Rotanovs wrote: > >   > >>PHP also runs on Windows and there's nothing wrong with ru

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP

2004-08-05 Thread Nathan Strutz
Comments inline... Viktors Rotanovs wrote: > PHP also runs on Windows and there's nothing wrong with running it that way. Yeah, but on mission-critical high-end applications, would you run it on windows? I wouldn't. Though maybe I wouldn't run windows either... > Isn't the main goal to build w

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP + Anyone from Latvia here?

2004-08-05 Thread Viktors Rotanovs
Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia] wrote: >  >Back to the topic: anyone from Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia reading this? >  >What's average rate for CF development in your country? In average, >  >experienced PHP developers get about $1k/mo here in Latvia, is it the >  >same for CF/.NET? > Do yo

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP + Anyone from Latvia here?

2004-08-05 Thread Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia]
Do you mean full time or contract? Viktors Rotanovs wrote: >Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia] wrote: > >   > >> >> Isn't the main goal to build working application as quickly as possible? >>Jeez...you are joking...?  your goal should be to create the best >>possible application. >>    >> >

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP

2004-08-05 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 02:50 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: > >> Isn't the main goal to build working application as quickly as possible? > >Jeez...you are joking...?  your goal should be to create the best possible >application.   Depends on the requirements.  I would think that both speed of development and quality of d

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP + Anyone from Latvia here?

2004-08-05 Thread Viktors Rotanovs
Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia] wrote: >  >> Isn't the main goal to build working application as quickly as possible? > Jeez...you are joking...?  your goal should be to create the best > possible application. Okay, the best possible application, but within a given timeframe (which means

Re: [OT] .Net vs PHP

2004-08-05 Thread Neil Robertson-Ravo [Team Macromedia]
>> Isn't the main goal to build working application as quickly as possible? Jeez...you are joking...?  your goal should be to create the best possible application. Viktors Rotanovs wrote: >Nathan Strutz wrote: >   > >> > Isn't it better to switch to PHP then? It allows even faster development

[OT] .Net vs PHP (was: Reasonable expectation)

2004-08-05 Thread Viktors Rotanovs
Nathan Strutz wrote: >  > Isn't it better to switch to PHP then? It allows even faster development >  > than .NET and there are lots of inexpensive PHP coders available. > No, PHP is natively linux, and the higher-ups have decided directly > toward windows. PHP also runs on Windows and there's not